Scandal, shocks and secrets – they’re all in the Crash of the Titans

TRAGEDY: The minibus smash at the Hollyoaks wedding is up for Best Stunt

Competition is always fierce

All About Soap editor , Johnathon Hughes

Organisers are concentrating on unmissable, explosive moments from the big soaps.

In the Best Episode category, ­Emmerdale aims for victory with its 40th anniversary live show in which Cameron Murray killed Carl King.

But Coronation Street fans will be backing the harrowing scenes when twisted Kirsty Soames ­confronted fiancé Tyrone Dobbs over his affair with Fiz Stape.

Home and Away will rely on the tragic death of baby Rocco, while EastEnders will hope to win with its special episode in which Billy Mitchell ran through Albert Square with the ­Olympic torch.

In the Best Stunt category, the Hollyoaks wedding day minibus crash that killed off four characters is a front runner.

Two more road accidents could take the title – Lauren Branning’s smash in EastEnders and Dexter ­Walker’s car crash in Home and Away. Katie Macey’s fall down a mine in Emmerdale is also a contender.

EastEnders gets two nominations in the Best Reveal category for Kat Moon’s affair with Derek Branning and Max Branning’s secret wife Kirsty turning up on Christmas Day. Hollyoaks’ revelation that twisted Walker was an undercover cop on the trail of Brendan Brady is also nominated, along with Chas Dingle’s stalker hell in ­Emmerdale. In the Best Death category Dirty Derek’s heart attack in EastEnders is up for the gong.

Emmerdale has two ­nominations for the ­murders of Alex and Carl by Cameron – but the ­accidental shooting of ­Hollyoaks hunk Riley ­Costello could also take the title.

EastEnders has the most nominations with nine, Emmerdale has eight, ­Corrie seven and Hollyoaks five. Home and Away and Neighbours each got one.

Speaking exclusively to the Daily Star Sunday, All About Soap editor ­Johnathon Hughes said: “The scandal, the shocks, the secrets…it’s all here. Competition is always fierce.”

Soap fans can vote from this Tuesday by going to allaboutsoap.co.uk. Voting closes on February 25. All the details can be found in the next ­issue of All About Soap magazine out on Tuesday.